Gowanus Atropolis
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Word Count
26,000 words, Guess
Page Count
104 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28754807M
- ISBN-139781933254814
- OCLC Control Number704389076
- OCLC Control Number1179159667
Classifications
- LCCPS3602.R6425 G69 2011
Description
"Gowanus atropolis is an ecopoetical exploration of the Gowanus canal in Brooklyn, a recently designated superfund site that was once a fertile fishing ground for the Canarsie Native American tribe. The poems grapple with reconciling the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in 'Manahatta' with the poet's search for the pastoral in New York City. A queer elegy for when language might have been prior to thought, where the phrase becomes the thought, rather than the other way around--so that the dystopic might become, if not utopic, at least measurable / pleasurable, 'melodious offal.'Gowanus atropolis reinscribes, as always already present, both queer and Native spaces in and around the Gowanus through a radical reshaping of English."--Publisher's website, viewed July 14, 2021.
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